Container



Feb. 3,1931. s. B. E. MGVAY ET AL 1,791,422

CONTAINER Filed April 12, 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet l Patented Feb. 3, 1931 SAMUEL B. E. MCVAY AND ALEXANDER M. D. MARTIN, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK,

ASSZGNORS TO BliFE-LO BOX. FAfiTOii-Y OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK; A CORPORATION or new YORK CONTAINER Application filed April 12, 1929.

This invention relates to a container having its interior divided by partitions into a plurality of cells which are adapted to receive bottles or similar articles.

It is the objectof this invention to provide the container with improv'ed'means for partitioning the space within'the same into cells so as to afford the maximum protection by use of a minimum amount of material andin the container.

In the following description similar characters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

The enclosing casing or shell of the container be made of any suitable material but preferably of corrugated paper board so the containeris of substantially rectangular form and provided with two longitudinal side walls 10, 10, two transverse end walls 11, 12, bottom flaps 1.3, and top flaps 14.

The space within the container is provided with partitioning whereby the same is divided into a plurality of upright cells each of which is adapted to receive a bottle or other article which is to be packed for transportation.

In the practical form of this invention the partitioning is accomplished by employing three kinds of units or members to produce the cellular division of the space Within the container.

One of these units is arranged and utilized to form complete and partial cells next to one of the end walls of the container and consists of a sheet 15 of corrugated paper board or the like which is bent to form a plurality of rectangular pockets opening alternately on opposite sides of this sheet. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3 this sheet is bent to form a slngle central pocket 16 which opens at its front side inwardly away from the adjacent end Serial No. 354,621.

wall of the casing while the back of this pocket engages said wall, and two end pockets 17, 17, the backs of which face inwardly while their open front sides face outwardly toward the adjacent end wall of the con tainer and are closed by reversely bent wings 18, 18, on the extremities of this partition sheet 15, these wings being in line with the back of the central pocket 16.

One or more other partition units each made from a ngle sheet 19 of the form shown in Figs. 1 and 4 are employed depending on the number of cells into which the space within the container can be divided, three of such unitsbeing utilized in the present instance so that together with the other partitioning members twelve cells will be produced in the container. The sheet 19 is bent back and forth to form a plurality of pockets alternate ly on its opposite sides and in thiscase a centralpocket 20 having its open front side facing away from the first mentioned unit and two end pockets 21, 21 arranged on opposite sides of the central pocket and having their open sides facing toward the first mentioned unit. This last mentioned bentv sheet is .arranged in the container so that the closed back of the central pocket 20 extends across and closes the open front side of the central pocket 16 in the first mentioned sheet and-the end pocket 21 have their open front sides closed by the backs of the end pockets 17, 17 of the first mentioned bent sheet 15, as shown in Fig. 1. 7

Each added bent sheet 19 of the character shown in Fig. 4 is placed in the container so that central pocket faces with its open front side away from the 'first'inentioned unit and the back of thecentral pocket closes the open front side of the central pocket of the preceding unit, and the open front sides of the end poc'ket-s in the added :unit are closed by the backs of the end pockets of the preceding narti cning :unit.

hen the space in the containerhas been completely iilled bybent units of the character described the bent unit which is placed last in the container has the open front side of its central pocket 20 facing the adjacent transvserse end wall 12 of the container while the backs of the end pockets 21 engage this 'all, as shown in Fig. 1.

T 0 complete the partitioning and make the cells of uniform cross section a filling unit 22 having the form of a strip of corrugated paper board or the like is placed in the container across the mouth or open side of the pocket 20 in line with the backs of the end pockets 21, 21, and against the end wall 12, as shown in Fig. 1.

When the several parts of the partitioning are thus assembled a double ply protection is ail'orded for the goods along the boundary of the group of cells while the cells are separated from each other within this boundary by only a single-ply of partitioning, thereby providing the necessary protection by using less material and reducing the cost accordingly.

For the purpose of further cushioning or roteeting the lower and upper ends of the ottles or other goods placed in the cells an additional protecting plate or board 23 is placed between the bottom iiaps l3 and lower ends of the partition units and asimilar protecting late or board 2d is placed between the top idhps 14; and the upper end of the partitioning units, as s iown in Fig. 2.

e claim as our invention:

1. A Container comprising a casing, and partitioning arranged within the casing for dividing the interior space thereof into a plurality of cells, said partitioning including a plurality of sheets, each bent back and forthto form a plurality of pockets which open on laterally opposite sides of the sheet, and the several sheets being arranged side by side so that the back walls of the pockets of each sheet extend across and form closures for the open front sides of pockets in an adjacent sheet and produce a plurality of complete cells.

2. A container comprising a casing, and partitioning arranged within the casing for dividing the interior space thereof into a plurality of cells, said partitioning including a plurality of sheets, one of which is bent back and forth to form a plurality of pockets at leastone of which opens laterally and the extremities of said sheet having reversely bent wings which extend across the open front sides of the endmost pockets of the respective sheet, and another sheet being bent back and forth to form a plurality of pockets and the back of at least one of said pockets in the last mentioned sheet extending across the open front of a pocket in the first mentioned sheet and forming a closure therefor.

3. A container comprising a casing, and partitioning arranged within the casing for dividing the space therein into a plurality of cells, said partitioning including a sheet bent back and forth to form a plurality of pockets openin alternately on opposite sides of the sheet and at least two of which face with their open sides toward a wall of said casing and at least one of which opens inwardly away from said wall, and the extremities of said sheet being bent reversely to form wings extending across the open front sides of those pockets thereof which face said wall of the casing, and another sheet being bent back nd forth to form a plurality of pockets opening alternately on opposite sides of the sheet and the back of at least one of the pockets in the last mentioned sheet extending across an inwardly opening pocket of the first mentioned sheet, and one of said sheets being bent back and forth to form a plurality of pockets opening alternately on opposite sides of the sheet and having the back of at least one of pockets closing the open front of the pockets of jacent sheets and at least one of its pockets facing with its open front side toward the adjacent wall of said container, and a separate strip extending across the open side the pocket in the last mentioned sheet which faces said container wall.

In testimony whereof we hereby aflix our signatures.

SAMUEL B. E. MoVAY. ALEXANDER M. D. MARTIN. 

